A federal judge’s decision invalidating President Donald Trump’s removal of the court-appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle is continuing to ripple through the legal industry, not just because it affects a high-profile Justice Department post, but because it tees up a deeper constitutional dispute over who controls interim federal prosecutors.

The underlying case, Rogoff v. Trump et al, centers on…
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The Justice Department has announced a settlement resolving an employment-discrimination matter involving a Texas memory-care facility and a National Guard medic, underscoring the federal government’s continued willingness to enforce workplace protections for servicemembers. Although the matter was resolved short of a contested court ruling, the settlement is a useful reminder that the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01250 grants the Patent Owner’s motions to seal, reinforcing a familiar but important PTAB principle: while Board proceedings are presumptively public, targeted protection remains available for genuinely confidential business information.

Although this order is procedural rather than merits-based, it matters because sealing disputes often shape how parties present technical…
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I’ll be honest. I didn’t know what to expect when I went to the Carlos Santana in concert last week. I mean, he’s pushing 80. Would he still play those glorious guitar riffs? Or would he mail it in? Well. Carlos don’t mail it in. I thought about this when my friend Carolyn Elefant mentioned on Ruby Powers podcast that…
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In 1996, Professor Richard Susskind published the groundbreaking The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology, arguing that technology would fundamentally transform legal practice and the administration of […]
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. As the world wrestles with record-shattering global temperatures, a sobering technological contradiction has taken center stage: the rapid expansion of modern artificial intelligence is running on an immense supply of fossil fuel power. In her compelling keynote address, Evelyn Wang, Vice President for Energy and Climate at MIT and former Director…
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I have slowly been extracting myself from Google services. It’s not hard to understand why. Over time, the balance between what I had to give and what I received got out of balance. The hardest ones have been their core PIM offerings: Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. I have been looking for awhile for a groupware offering…
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Berlin-founded legal AI company Flank is set to unveil a heavyweight senior advisory board that it calls ‘The Orchestration Layer,’ bringing together general counsel, legal operations leaders, contracting specialists and […]
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A federal judge has approved Paramount’s settlement with a coalition of states challenging its Warner buyout, removing one of the most significant legal obstacles to the transaction’s closing. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín found the proposed consent decree to be a fair resolution of the states’ allegations that the deal could harm competition.

For deal lawyers and antitrust practitioners, the…
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This week we talk with Ross Guberman, founder and CEO of BriefCatch, and Heather Rodriguez, the company’s enterprise account executive. Ross built BriefCatch to put the lessons from his books and workshops in front of lawyers while they write. It started as a rules engine that flagged everything from typos to sentence flow. He admits he was…
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Sunday legal news often arrives in the form of analysis, newly unsealed filings, emergency motions, weekend agency statements, and the practical fallout from rulings issued late in the prior week. For legal professionals, that timing matters: by Monday morning, clients want to know not just what happened, but what requires action.

The biggest theme in today’s U.S. legal developments is…
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As AI agents slip their guardrails and threaten Big Law’s traditional business model, firm leaders face a dual risk: operational chaos in institutions built on confidentiality and trust, and economic upheaval that talent wars and mega-mergers can’t fix, writes The Global Lawyer.
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